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Program 

GEORGE E. HAMILTON 
Chairman 

EDWIN C. BRANDENBURG 
T oastmaster 

Invocation by Rev. PAUL SPERRY 

Addresses by 
WILLIAM R. DAY 
Associate Justice U. S. Supreme Court 

THEODORE W. NOYES 
Editor The Evening Star 

THOMAS S. HOPKINS 

Judge Advocate General, Grand Army of the Republic 

WENDELL P. STAFFORD 
Justice Supreme Court of the District of Columbia 

JOSEPH H. DEFREES 

President Chamber of Commerce of the United States 

GILBERT GROSVENOR 
President National Geographic Society 

ELLIOT H. GOODWIN 
Former Secretary National Civil Service League 

DAVID JAYNE HILL 
Former Ambassador to Germany, etc. 

Presentation by 
MARTIN A. KNAPP 
Justice Circuit Court of Appeals 

GEORGE M. KOBER 

Dean School of Medicine, Georgetown University 
Songs by 

Mrs. FLORA McGILL KEEFER 




John Joy Edson 

B ORN in Jefferson, Ohio, May 17, 1846. Educated in public 
school until 1861. Served in 61st New York Volunteers, 1861- 
1862, and at General Sumner’s Headquarters, 1862-1863. 

Appointed a messenger in the Treasury Department March, 1863; 
shortly after a clerk in the office of the Comptroller of the Currency, and 
resigned in 1875. 

Attended night school and Columbia Law School (now George 
Washington University), graduating in 1868, and was admitted to the 
Bar of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia the same year. 

Married, March 1, 1869, Miss Elizabeth Berthrong, in Rochester, 
New York. 

Member of Kit Carson Post, G. A. R. 

Member of Columbia Lodge, F. A. A. M. 

With his brother, Joseph R. Edson, engaged in patent law practice 
from 1875 to 1881, when he withdrew from the firm. 

Secretary of several building associations—the Franklin, Jefferson, 
and Arlington, 1870—until all their shares matured and were redeemed 
and the associations wound up after a successful career. 

Organized in 1879 the Equitable Co-operative Building Association 
on the plan of issuing stock continuously in series, and acted as secretary 
until 1898, 19 years; since then as its president, 23 years to date. 

Charter stockholder of the Washington Loan and Trust Co., or¬ 
ganized in 1889. Elected Vice-President that year and President in 
1894, remaining in that office until 1917, over 23 years, when he declined 
re-election. Then elected chairman of the Board of Directors, which 
position he still holds. 

Charter member of the Columbia National Bank, organized in 
1887, and elected a director. 

For several years served on the Board of Directors of the National 
Metropolitan Bank and the Potomac Fire Insurance Company. 

Chairman of the Citizens’ Executive Committee to receive and en¬ 
tertain in 1892 the first G. A. R. reunion in Washington after the great 
parade in 1865. 

Member of Presidential Inaugural Executive Committees—Har¬ 
rison, 1889; Cleveland, 1893;-McKinley, 1897 and 1901; Roosevelt, 
1905; Taft, 1909; Wilson, 1913—and was chairman of the second 
McKinley Inaugural Committee in 1901. 




Member of the Executive Committee and Treasurer of the Ameri¬ 
can Red Cross during the Spanish-American War. 

President of National Homeopathic Hospital, 1889-1895. 

President of Civil Service Reform Association of the District of 
Columbia, 1895-1907. 

Treasurer of Associated Charities from 1897 to 1921. 

Treasurer of the George Washington University 1903-1905 and 
trustee, 1917-1921. 

President of the Washington Board of Trade 1900 and re-elected 
1901. 

Member and President of Government Board of Charities appointed 
by the President, 1900 to 1921. 

Member of the Board of the Trustees and Treasurer of the Na¬ 
tional Geographic Society, 1901 to 1921. 

Member of the Board and Treasurer of Washington Sanitary Im¬ 
provement Co. since organization, in 1900. 

Director and Treasurer of the Chamber of Commerce of the 
U. S. A. since its organization, nine years. 

Member of the Prison Commission—Judge W. P. Stafford, chair¬ 
man—appointed by President Roosevelt, under an act of Congress, mak¬ 
ing their report January 1, 1909. They are still members of the Com¬ 
mission. 

President of John Dickson Home for Old Men since organization, 
1912-1921. 

Member of Board and Treasurer of National Association for Con¬ 
stitutional Government from organization to date. 

Delegate to Pan American Financial Conferences, held at Wash¬ 
ington in 1915 and 1919. 

Chairman of Appeal Board, Soldiers’ Selective Service, 1917-1918. 

Chairman of Capitol Issue Committee for District of Columbia dur¬ 
ing the war. 

Member of Visiting Board of St. Elizabeth’s, U. S. Government 
Hospital. 

Member of Cosmos, University, National Press, City, and Art 
Clubs. 

Declined on two occasions position of Commissioner for the District 
of Columbia, tendered by President Harrison in 1893 and by President 
McKinley in 1901. 




John Joy Edson 
Anniversary Committee 


GEORGE E. HAMILTON 


Chairman 


EDWIN C. BRANDENBURG 
WILLIAM T. GALLIHER . 
GILBERT GROSVENOR . . 
THOMAS BRADLEY . . . 


Vice-Chairman 
Vice-Chairman 
. . Secretary 


Treasurer 


Executive Committee 


THE CHAIRMAN 

THE SECRETARY 


THE VICE-CHAIRMEN 
THE TREASURER 


and 


JOHN C. HOYT 
DR. GEORGE M. KOBER 
JUSTICE WENDELL P. STAFFORD 
GEORGE S. WILSON 

C o m mi 11 e e on Invitations 

JOHN B. LARNER 
EDWIN C. BRANDENBURG 
GILBERT GROSVENOR 
DR. GEORGE M. KOBER 

Committee on Dinner Arrangements 


FRANK P. REESIDE 
E. H. DROOP 
D. A. SKINNER 
O. R. EVANS 
L. LEE COMBS 
JOHN H. SMALL 
CHARLES J. WATERS 

Committee on Printing 

GEORGE H. JUDD 
CLIFFORD K. BERRYMAN 
CHARLES F. CRANE 

Committee on Gift 

JUSTICE MARTIN A. KNAPP 
WILLIAM T. GALLIHER 
CHARLES MOORE 








General Committee 


Adams, Eugene G. 

^Ailes, Milton E. 

Arnold, Dr. J. S. 

Back, T. Kelley 
Baden, William H. 

Bailey, Charles B. 

Baird, James 
^Baldwin, William H. 

Bangs, H. Clifford 
^Barnard, Justice Job 
Barnard, Ralph P. 

Beale, William L. 

Becker, Conrad 
Belcher, Robert W. 

^.Bell, Dr. Alexander Graham 
^■Bell, Charles J. 

^.Berliner, Dr. Emile 
. .Berryman, Clifford K. 
Berthrong, Fred M. 
Berthrong, I. P. 

Blair, Henry P. 

Bolgiano, F. W. 

Bones, Thomas 
^Bovee, Dr. J. Wesley 
Bradford, E. W. 

Bradley, Thomas 
Brandenburg, E. C. 
Brickenstein, J. H. 

Britton, Alexander 
Browne, Alex. Britton 
Brownlow, Louis 
Brylawski, A. 

^Bulkley, Barry 

-•Burton, Senator Theodore E. 

,^-Bush-Brown, H. K. 

Callahan, D. J. 

Cameron, S. T. 

Carman, L. D. 

••-Carpenter, Frank G. 

Carter, William G. 

Chipman, Dr. C. N. 

Clark, Allen C. 


^ Clark, Appleton P., Jr. 
Clabaugh, William 
Claughton, R. E. 

Clause, W. L. 

Cohen, Myer 
^Colladay, E. F. 

Combs, L. Lee 
Cooper, Wm. Knowles 
Corby, Charles I. 

Corby, W. S. 

Corson, Clarence 
^ Coville, Dr. Frederick V. 
Cox, Joseph W. 

Cox, W. V. 

Crane, Charles F. 

Crawford, John M. 
Cunningham, J. Harry 

^ Davis, Floyd E. 

Davis, Henry E. 

Dawson, Clyde C. 

<^Day, Rufus S. 

^ Day, Justice William R. 
Defrees, Joseph H. 

De Lacy, Judge William H. 
Deyber, V. B. 

Diebitsch, Emil 
Doing, Charles H., Jr. 
Donaldson, Walter 
Droop, Carl A. 

Droop, Edward H. 

Duvall, W. Clarence 

Earnest, John Paul 
Edson, Bennett 
Edson, John Joy, Jr. 

Edson, John Joy, 3d 
Edson, Joseph R. 

Estes, L. W. 

Evans, George W. 

Evans, Joshua, Jr. 

Evans, W. E. 

Evans, O. R. 

Everett, William W. 




Fadeley, C. Fenton 
Fahey, John H. 

Fairfax, Charles W. 

^ Faulkner, Senator Charles J. 
Fenning, Major Frederick A. 
Fisher, Franklin L. 

Fisher, H. W. 

Fitzgerald, J. V. 

.^Flather, Wm. J. 

^Fleming, George E. 

Flynn, Maurice F. 

Forsberg, Gustav W. 
Fortune, William 
Foster, Charles C. 

Fox, Albert F. 

**~Fox, Duane E. 

^ French, Owen B. 

^Galliher, W. T. 

Galloway, John R. 

Gans, Isaac 
Gardiner, A. S. 

Gardiner, W. Gwynn 
Garfinkle, Julius 
George, Charles C. 

Gibson, Dr. Frank E. 

Gill, R. Cloyd 
Goldenberg, M. 

Goodwin, Elliot H. 

^~Gore, Dr. J. H. 

Gormley, Philip F. 

Graham, E. C. 

Grant, T. Carroll 
Grant, Thomas 
Graves, Ralph A. 
>>Grosvenor, Gilbert 
^ Gude, William F. 

Guy, Benjamin W. 

Hacker, Morris 
^Hamilton, George E. 

Hannay, William M. 
^Jiarper, Robert N. 

Harries, General George H. 
Hawn, Phelan C. 
Hawxhurst, Dr. H. H. 
Haynes, H. V. 


Hazen, Melvin C. 

Healey, John P. 

^Heaton, Arthur B. 

Heilprin, G. F. 

Henderson, James B. 
Henderson, R. W. 

Henderson, Wm. G. 
Hendrick, J. Thilman 
Herrmann, J. Philip 
Heurich, Christian 
Hickling, Dr. D. Percy 
Hildebrand, Jesse R. 

__Hill, Dr. David Jayne 

Hines, C. C. 

Hobbs, James D. 

^Hodgkins, Prof. H. L. 
Hoehling, A. A., Jr. 
Holcombe, Amasa M. 
^Hood, James F. 

Hopkins, Col. Thos. S. 
Howard, Clarence H. 
^Howard, Dr. L. O. 

I loward, Robt. C. 

Hoyem, Oliver 
Hoyt, John C. 

Hunt, C. B. 

Hunt, J. W. 

Hutchison, George W. 

Johnson, Guy H. 

Johnson, William C. 

Johnston, General John A. 
Jones, S. M., of Chester, S. C. 
Judd, George H. 

Kann, Simon 
Karrick, James L. 
z^Kauffmann, Rudolph 
^Kauffmann, Victor 
Kaufman, D. J. 

Keferstein, C. B. 

Kelley, Capt. Leverett M. 
Kerby, Rev. William J. 

King, George A. 

King, Harry 
King, William 






^xKing, William Bruce 
Klopfer, Walter H. 

^ Knapp, Justice Martin A. 
Kober, Dr. George Martin 
Kolb, J. Leo 
Krogstad, Dr. Henry 
Kutz, Col. C. W. 

^ La Gorce, John Oliver 
Lampe, Arthur C. 

Lanham, Clifford 
„ Earner, John B. 

* Lee, Ralph W. 

Leese, M. A. 

Letts, John C. 

Light, Charles P. 

Linkins, William H. 

Lipscomb, William P. 

Lisner, A. 

Lyon, Simon 

Macfarland, Henry B. F. 
MacKenzie, Fred W. 
Magruder, John H. 

Manogue, William H. 

^JMark, Le Roy 
^JVlarlatt, Charles L. 

Marlow, Morris E. 

McAleer, Edward L. 
McCormick, Roberdeau Annan 
McElroy, Col. John 
McKee, Fred 
McKenney, Frederic D. 
McQuade, E. J. 

^Meem, Harry G. 

Mengert, Ulric T. 

Merillat, Charles H. 

Mertz, E. P. 

Messer, James A. 

Mitchell, Arthur N. 

Mohun, Barry 

Montgomery, Rev. James Shera 
Moore, Charles 
^ Moore, Willis L. 

Moran, Howard 
Moses, W. H. 


^Munroe, Prof. Charles E. 
^Needham, Dr. Charles W. 
^Neill, Dr. Charles P. 

^Nesbit, Charles F. 

Norment, Clarence F. 
Normoyle, William P. 

Noyes, Frank B. 

Noyes, Theodore P. 

^ Noyes, Theodore W. 

O’Donnell, James 
Owen, Vernon G. 

Oyster, Commissioner James F. 

^ Parker, Andrew 
Pattison, A. S. 

Pattison, Terrell 
Peak, Louis R. 

^ Penfield, Walter S. 

Peter, Arthur 
Phillips, Alexander K. 

Pierson, Lewis E. 

Porter, D. S. 

Pratt, W. S., Jr. 

Prescott, Samuel J. 

Preston, Ord 
Prince, Ben L. 

Pyle, Frederic B. 

^ Ralston, Jackson H. 

Randle, Arthur E. 

Redpath, John U. 

Reeside, Alan E. 

.^—Reeside, Frank P. 

Reeside, Howard 
Riseling, John 
Reizenstein, Sidney H. 

Rhett, R. G., Charleston, S. C. 
Richards, W. P. 

^ Richardson, Dr. Charles W. 
Richardson, F. A. 

Richardson, William E. 

Roberts, W. F. 

Roche, Sidney 
Rosenberg, M. D. 

Ross, Col. Tenney 




Rudolph, Commissioner Cuno H. 
Rust, H. L. 

Saks, Isadore 
Saul, B. F. 

Saul, John A. 

Schooley, Dr. H. M. 

Schulteis, Albert 
Sebring, F. A. 

Shand, Miles M. 

Shannon, William E. 

Sharp, James 
Shepherd, Fred N. 

Sheridan, H. C. 

Shiras, George, 3rd 
Showalter, W. J. 

Shuster, William M. 

^^^yShute, Dr. D. K. 

Siddons, Justice Frederick L. 
Simmons, Wallace D. 

Simon, Dr. Abram 
Simpson, Dr. John Crayke 
Sinclair, A. Leftwich 
Skinner, D. A. 

Smith, Chas. G., Jr. 

Smith, Emmons S. 

Smith, George Edward 
Smith, Odell S. 

Snow, Chester A. 

Snyder, E. H. 

Sperry, Rev. Paul 
^Stafford, Justice W. P. 

/ Stellwagen, Edward J. 

Stidham, Harrison 
Stryker, Burdett 
Stuart, James L. 

Sturtevant, Charles L. 

Sullivan, W. C. 

X* Sutton, Frank 
Swartzell, J. N. 

Symons, William L. 

Taylor, Major Boyd 
^Thom, Corcoran 
Thompson, Eugene E. 


Thomson, Eliot H. 

Thorpe, Merle 
Thurston, Ernest L. 
^Tindall, Dr. William 
Tobriner, Leon 
Turpin, Perry B. 

^ Ufford, Walter S. 

Van Dyke, Harry W. 
^Van Schaick, Rev. John, Jr. 

Wagner, Frank L. 

Walker, Ernest G. 

Walker, Hay, Jr. 
^Wardman, Harry 

Washburn, Dr. William S. 
Waters, Charles J. 

Weaver, John L. 

Weller, Francis R. 

Weller, Joseph I. 

West, Sidney 
Wheeler, Harry A. 
Whitaker, Andrew J. 

White, Edward 
White, George W. 

✓^White, Dr. William A. 
Wight, John B. 

Wight, Lloyd B. 

Wilbur, Prof. William A. 
^Wiley, Dr. H. W. 
Wilkinson, Dr. A. G. 
Williams, H. E. 

Williams, Maynard Owen 
Willson, Harry B. 

Wilson, George S. 

Wolf, Alexander 
Wolf, Simon 
Wood, Court F. 

Wood, Edward 
Woodbury, Levi 
Woodward, Donald 
Woodward, Dr. R. S. 
^^Worthington, Col. A. S. 

Zantzinger, O. B. 


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